GRUAN News
News of network, community and related science
Article
JTECH paper Sun et al. 2019
The following GRUAN-relevant paper was published at Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: "On the Accuracy of Vaisala RS41 versus RS92…
Campaign
Test campaign with Skydew instrument at Lindenberg observatory
From 1-5 April our colleagues from Meisei, Takuji Sugidachi and Kensaku Shimizu, visited the Lead Centre at Lindenberg Observatory to test the Skydew…
Article
Remote sensing paper Schröder et al. 2019
The following GRUAN-relevant paper was published at Remote Sensing: " The GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment: Overview and Introduction to Results and…
Article
JGR paper Trent et al. 2019
The following GRUAN-relevant paper was published at JGR Atmospheres: " GEWEX water vapor assessment: Validation of AIRS tropospheric humidity profiles…
Data Network Station
GNSS station installed at Lamont (Southern Great Plains)
In a cooperative effort, ARM and GFZ Potsdam have set up a GNSS station at the GRUAN site in Lamont (Southern Great Plains).
Document
GRUAN Technical Document 7 published
GRUAN Technical Document 7 (GRUAN-TD-7) published with title "Review of Multiple-payload Radiosonde Sounding Configurations for Determining…
Article
AMT paper Kobayashi et al. 2019 in review
The following GRUAN-relevant paper was published at AMTD: "Comparison of the GRUAN data products for Meisei RS-11G and Vaisala RS92-SGP radiosondes at…
Network
The value of collaboration in New Zealand
Development of a Site Atmospheric State Best Estimate for Lauder temperature demonstrates the value of collaboration between NIWA and the New Zealand…
Article
AMT paper Carminati et al. 2018 in review
The following GRUAN-relevant paper was published at AMTD: "Using reference radiosondes to characterise NWP model uncertainty for improved satellite…
Meeting Document
Report of the GRUAN ICM-10 released to the public
Report of the Tenth GCOS Reference Upper Air Network Implementation and Coordination Meeting (GRUAN ICM-10) published
Working group
June Wang new co-chair of WG-GRUAN
We are pleased to announce that June Wang (SUNY Albany) has accepted the position of co-chair of the Working Group to GRUAN, hereby taking over this…
Event
The 10th anniversary of the establishment of GRUAN
The 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Reference Upper Air Network (GRUAN) was celebrated during the…
Article
ACP paper Brunamonti et al. 2018 in review
The following GRUAN-relevant paper was published at ACP:
“Balloon-borne measurements of temperature, water vapor, ozone and aerosol backscatter at…
Article
ESSD paper Tradowsky et al. 2018 in review
The following GRUAN-relevant paper was published at ESSD:
“Combining Data from the Distributed GRUAN Site Lauder-Invercargill, New Zealand, to…
Document
GRUAN Technical Document 5 has been published
We are pleased to announce that GRUAN Technical Document 5 (GRUAN-TD-5) 'Characteristics and data processing for the Meisei RS-11G and iMS-100…